All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people;…

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniences and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I could expect Comfort.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

The same causes will generally produce the same effects; and it requires no great degree of penetration to foretell that what has happened may happen again.

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find …